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From the broad, welcoming porch of the Tangier Island health center, physician assistant E. Inez Pruitt can look over her childhood home on one side and the grave of her mentor, David B. Nichols, on the other. When Nichols died in 2010, the physician left a legacy 30 years in the making. Every Thursday, the White Stone family practitioner would fly his helicopter to Tangier Island, a speck of land slap in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, 14 miles from the mainland, to deliver primary care to its 500 or so residents. Known as "Dr. Copter," he served them in a decaying, dilapidated 50-year-old building. Just weeks before he died, after a years-long fundraising campaign, the...

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From the broad, welcoming porch of the Tangier Island health center, physician assistant E. Inez Pruitt can look over her childhood home on one side and the grave of her mentor, David B. Nichols, on the other.
When Nichols died in 2010, the physician...

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